Songs that Keep Cropping Up
Dammit! Let me buy my apples in peace!
Well, we need something, to keep with this nice stream of traffic we’ve been generating lately. So I propose a list of songs that get in our heads in certain situations. For example:
- Every time I buy an apple at the farmer’s market, I get Joni Mitchell’s “Big Yellow Taxi” in my head. (“Give me spots on apples/but leave me the birds and the bees.”)
- There’s a Fountains of Wayne song called “Seatbacks and Traytables Up” that cycles through my head whenever I’m on a plane.
That is a short list. Anyone else?
No? Okay, no biggie.
1My first main job was actually as a Graphic Designer and I also had to dabble a little bit in html code so pretty much every single day "Dreamweaver" the song got stuck in my head because I was using Dreamweaver the program. I don't see how either program and song got called "Dreamweaver."
Also, once in awhile I get "9 to 5" stuck in my head when I have to come to work.
*My work hours are way longer than 9 - 5pm.
2The song "The Wave" by Tanya Donelly has a lyric "My face has never been one to betray me, it lies when I need it to." My friend Cindy always calls MySpace/Facebook "MyFace" (as her way of proving that she's so cool she doesn't even know what those things are). So, whenever I'm on Facebook, I get "The Wave" stuck in my head, which is fine, because I love that song.
We have a restaurant here in Austin called Changos. I almost always sing the name of it, "Ch-ch-ch-changos!"
There's another way more ridiculous one, but I can't for the life of me remember what it is. I just know I've laughed at myself recently for getting a song stuck in my head because it kinda sorta sounds like something I do, but I can't remember what song it is.
3I used to think of (if not actually sing aloud) TMBG's "Till My Head Falls Off" whenever I stood at my bathroom sink, thanks to the lyric, "Clearing my throat and gripping my lectern/I smile and face my audience/clearing his throat and smiling/with his hands on the bathroom sink."
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